ḥitta

morsel, piece

حِتَّة

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Noun

Root

ح ت ت

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حِتَت

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • حَتَّهُ Form I He scraped it, or rubbed it, off
    , (A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. , (Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. حَتٌّ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) He scraped it, or rubbed it, off, (Az, Mgh, Msb, TA, and Ham p. 310,) or rubbed it and scraped it off, (A, K,) or scraped it off by little and little, (Az, TA,) namely, a thing, (TA,) as, for instance, blood, (A, TA,) or semen, (S, A,) or something dry, (Ham ubi suprà,) from a garment, (S, A, Ham, TA,) or the like, (S, Ham,) with the hand, or with a stick, or piece of wood, (Mgh, Ham,) or with the end of a stone or of a stick or piece of wood. (Az, Msb.) And حَتَّ الوَرَقَ, (A, Msb,) inf. n. as above, (S, Msb,) He removed the leaves [by rubbing or scraping], (Msb,) from a branch, (S,) or from trees. (A.) ― -b2- Hence, حَتَّ ٱللّٰهُ مَالَهُ, (A, TA,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) (tropical:) God destroyed, or may God destroy, his property: (A:) or God caused his property to pass away, and so reduced him to poverty; or may God cause &c. (TA.) ― -b3- And حَتَّهُ عَنِ الشَّىْءِ, (A, * TA,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) (tropical:) He repelled him, drove him back, or turned him back, from the thing. (A, * TA.) ― -b4- حَتَّهُ مِايأَةَ دِرْهَمٍ (tropical:) He payed him hastily a hundred dirhems. (A, TA. *) And حَتَّهُ مِايأَةَ سَوْطٍ (tropical:) He inflicted upon him hastily a hundred lashes with a whip. (S, A.) ― -b5- حَتَّ الشَّىْءَ i. q. حَطَّهُ [He put the thing; put it down; &c.]. (K.) -A2- See also 6.
  • احتّ Form IV dried, or dried up
    It (the kind of tree called أَرْطَى) dried, or dried up. (K.)
  • تحاتّ Form VI It became rubbed and scraped off
    It became rubbed and scraped off; as also ↓ انحتّ: (K:) it (a thing) became scattered, strewn, or dispersed; or became so by degrees, part after part; syn. تَنَاثَرَ. (S.) And تحاتّ الوَرَقُ, (A, TA,) or تَحَاتَّت; (K;) and ↓ انحتّ, (A,) or انحتّت; (K;) and ↓ حَتَّت, (K,) [aor., app., , the verb being intrans.,] inf. n. حَتٌّ; (TA;) and ↓ تَحَتْحَتَت; (K;) The leaves became rubbed and scraped off: (A:) or fell (K) from the branch &c.: or fell successively, one after another. (TA.) And تحاتّت الشَّجَرَةُ The tree shed its leaves, one after another. (Msb.) And شَعَرُهُ عَنْ رَأْسِهِ ↓ انحت His hair fell off from his head. (TA.) And تحاتّت أَسْنَانُهُ His teeth fell out, one after another. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] تحاتّت ذُنُوبُهُ (assumed tropical:) His sins fell from him. (TA, from a trad.)
  • إِنْحَتَ3َ Form VII Open entry
    see 6, in three places.
  • حَتْحَتَ Open entry
    : see حَتْحَتَةٌ
  • حت Open entry
    see 6.
  • حَتِّ A cry by which birds are chidden
    (indecl., with kesr for its termination, TA) A cry by which birds are chidden. (K.)
  • حَتٌّ Dead
    : see حُتَات. ― -b2- Also Dead; [as though strewn upon the ground, in fragments;] applied to locusts (جَرَاد): pl. أَحْتَاتٌ; (K;) its only pl. (MF.) [Hence, app.,] تَرَكُوهُمْ حَتًّا بَتًّا and حَتًّا فَتًّا (tropical:) They destroyed them. (A, TA.) ― -b3- Dates (تَمْر) not sticking together. (K, * TA.) [See also حُثٌّ.] ― -b4- (tropical:) A fleet, or swift, horse; (S, A;) as though he scraped the ground; (A;) light in pace, and wide in step: pl. as above: (S:) or a fleet, or swift, and excellent horse; (K;) that runs swiftly and much, or that furrows the ground much with his feet: (TA:) also generous and high-bred (كَرِيمٌ عَتِيقٌ [app. as applied to a horse]): (K:) and a fleet, or swift, camel: (K:) a quick-paced and light-paced camel; as also ↓ حَتْحَتٌ: (TA:) and a male ostrich. (K.) The Hudhalee says, (S,) namely, El-Aalam, (TA,) " على حَتِّ البُرَايَةِ زَمْخَرِىِّ السْ سَوَاعِدِ ظَلَّ فِى شَرْىٍ طِوَالِ " (S, TA:) he likens himself, says As, in his running and fleeing, to a male ostrich, as is shown by what precedes this verse: (S:) by حتّ البراية is said to be meant حَتٍّ عِنْدَ البُرَايَةِ, i. e. (tropical:) fleet, or swift, when emaciated by journeying; the subst. براية being said to be put for the inf. n. بَرْى: (A, * L:) some of the Basrees say that the poet means a camel; but As disapproves of this, because to that which he here describes he has before applied the epithet هِجَفّ: ISd says that in his opinion he likens his horse or his camel to a male ostrich, because of the epithet هجفّ, preceding, and because neither the horse nor the camel eats the colocynth, but this plant is cropped by ostriches; شرى meaning the colocynth: IJ says that شرى here signifies a tree of which bows are made; and the poet means that if the trees thus called are tall, they conceal him, and he is the more lonesome, or sad; and that if they were short, his eye would range freely, and he would be pleased, and would run gently. (L.) -A2- See also حَتَّى, near the end of the paragraph.
  • حُتٌّ Moistened, or stirred about, with water
    , applied to سوِيق, i. q. مَلْتُوتٌ [i. e. Moistened, or stirred about, with water, &c.]. (K.) [See also حُثٌّ.]
  • حَتَتٌ A disease that affects trees, in consequence of which their leaves fall off
    A disease that affects trees, in consequence of which their leaves fall off. (TA.)
  • حتّه A bit
    [app. حِتَّةٌ, as pronounced in the present day; pl. حِتَتٌ; now applied to A bit of anything; properly, a paring, or scraping;] a piece of peel or bark or crust or the like. (TA.)
  • حَتَاتٌ Cries, shouts, noises, or clamour
    Cries, shouts, noises, or clamour; or a confusion, or mixture, of cries or shouts or noises, or of crying or shouting or noise. (K.)

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